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[ Xion had walked into the clothing store in the village square as her normal self. Just a sixteen year old Poppet picking up some warmer clothes for winter, nothing new.

She darts back outside just a minute later, looking deeply bewildered and rather ... different. For one, she's suddenly three inches taller than she was a moment ago, and somehow her hair has grown to hang a good four inches past her shoulders. Not to mention she seems to have filled out that teenage body of hers. This is definitely a woman, one who seems to be in roughly her mid twenties.

Considering she was just in the clothing store, she's dressed rather impractically for the weather in loose, flowing black pants and a black camisole. It's an outfit more appropriate for working out in... and given the bow she has in her hands and the quiver of arrows on her back, it looks like that's what she was just doing.

An arrow is now nocked on that bow as she stares around in growing alarm, before her eyes narrow in thought and frustration. Down goes the bow, and the arrow goes back in its quiver.

Give her a moment or two, and she'll have darted back into the clothing store to grab a coat before heading to the fountain, bow once again over her chest, reading her journal as she goes.

When she speaks, her voice has changed a little, too -- it's only slightly lower, but somehow she just sounds older. ]

This isn't... this isn't the Luceti I was just in. Just a second ago it was summer, and I'd been... it doesn't matter.

[ this young woman is frowning rather severely at her journal, her mind obviously working a mile a minute as she thinks. ]

... is there something strange going on? Can anyone tell me when this is? What year is it? Something doesn't seem right.

[ there's a pause, now, and a little bit of anxiety as she proceeds. ] ... is everyone still--? ... dad? Axel, Roxas? ... Riku?

[ unconsciously, Xion raises a hand, pressing her fingers to her mouth in worry and in thought. The observant may notice that there seems to be a plain gold band around her ring finger. Surely that can't be a wedding ring? She'll drop her hand before you can get a closer look, though. ]

Please, tell me what's going on.

[1) different bracket style just because. but also to cut down on the length of this thing.

2) she looks something like this, only with the hair midway down her chest instead. spoiler as to who she married. 8|

3) all replies will come from

reactualized and y'all better appreciate because making that shit took FOREVER. also please do comment here if you want Xion to have knowledge of a future version of your character!

4) I'm tagging like a beast EVERYWHERE right now, please do ping me if I missed something somewhere.]

(edit; WHOOPS I just realized there's a bit of a time discrepancy in some threads, as to what time of the year it was when Xion was poofed back. :|a gonna just handwave it. sorry!)

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Ms. Sage? I mean... Raine. [ Xion took classes under her for several years, after all. Even though it's been a while, it's a tough habit to shake. ] That makes a little more sense. I don't think anyone else had it exactly right. Thank you.

You're welcome. I can understand that it must be a confusing time - there are quite a few effects going on at once. While it isn't the first time that something of this nature has happened, it is rather chaotic for everyone involved.

It isn't the last time, either. [ an experiment like this seems to occur roughly once a year or so. ] But this is the first time a Shift has moved me around in time.

So your memories... are of a future? In this place?

Yes. I've lived in Luceti for ten years now. Maybe a little longer... I don't keep track as much as I used to.

So the situation wouldn't have improved... in your future.

... well, it's true that no one has ever found a way to escape the barrier. And, yes, the Malnosso still have control. But after ten years, you really get used to it. I've been happy. A lot of my friends have been, too. ... though I'm not sure if I should tell them or not.

So after ten years, people would have given up on that resolve.

Some people. Not all of them, though. We still have New Feather cycles, though they're not nearly as frequent as they used to be. It's just that, for some of us...

[ a pause. then, deciding to be careful of her friends, she locks this at 100%. ]

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I got married a few years ago. Another friend of mine is married too, he and his wife have a child now. A lot of us have families here, families that would never exist if we went home. Some of us just want to stay.

... It's a lot to absorb. The more that time goes on, the more that people grow used to a situation. It's... not exactly something that's optimistic for our future. Even if you're happy now, it might be more difficult for others to hear at this stage in their lives.

It sounds like... little has changed, despite our efforts.

... that's part of the reason why I filtered this. I'm trying to keep from ... doing that to others. I don't want to burden anyone with the knowledge of a future that may or may not even come true. Especially if they have lives back home they want to return to.

[ a beat. ] I was in your classes at the school as a teenager, but if you don't want to know, I won't tell you if you're still in the Luceti I'm from. I know it must be a hard thing to hear...

[ that gets a longer pause. ] ... no. In fact, very little has changed. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news...

... No, it's all right. The future ... isn't something that's truly set in stone. This world alone proves that many possibilities exist. Sometimes it's better not to know them... but we can't deny them, either.

[The idea that all of their work could be for nothing. That every year something happens, it's just a joke -- a joke that they could be the ones to break this cycle. How many years would pass, families get put together and torn apart, before something --]

... Am I still there?

I think I'm just ... going to ask each person what they want. If they want to know, then... I don't mind telling them.

[ and then, of course, Raine asks. Xion smiles a little. ]

Yes. So is Genis, actually.

I think that's the best way to ...

[And then Xion's next words sink in, causing her to pause and... attempt to absorb that fact as well. It's a little startling, actually, when she thought this situation couldn't possibly surprise her.] ... Genis is there?

... yes, he is. He has been for a few years now.

[ she keeps a somewhat neutral expression, since she can't immediately tell from the way Raine's reacting if this is good news or not. ]

[Raine isn't exactly sure how to take this news, so she is quiet for a few more moments. She did ask, and that possibility has always existed, but it's one thing to actually hear it. She's lost him twice here already.]

I... I see. And has he been well?

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